Bengaluru: Have you taken your Covid19 vaccination? If not here is a chance to get your free vaccination immediately in South Bengaluru.
With the growing number of Covid19 cases again and increasing concerns of safety, Re-Life Hospital has decided to offer free Covid-19 vaccination to people who register immediately.
Re-Life is a new hospital in Bengaluru that is all set to change the way medical services are delivered in the city. The hospital was inaugurated on November 28 by Bengaluru South MP, Mr. Tejasvi Surya. This multi-specialty hospital is located in Banashankari 3rd stage.
BOTH VACCINES, BOTH DOSES
Re-Life Hospital is offering both Covishield & Covaxin doses; both first and second dose of both the vaccines are being offered. Kindly carry your Aadhar card for ID. If first dose has been taken, kindly ensure you have the date/ receipt/certificate handy.
Dr Supriya, Managing Director of Re-Life Hospital believes that people should not hesitate to take vaccination or have any fears about it. “Considering how there is a sudden rise in numbers, it is best to take precautions by getting vaccinated in time.
It’s not too late even now; people who have earlier chosen not to take the Covid19 vaccine should come forward and take the vaccination out of concern for their own health, that of their family, and of the society at large,” she said, launching the free vaccination programme.
Register for free vaccination by calling 96060-21671
Date: 1st to 5th December 2021 Timing: 11 am to 7 pm (on December 5, the camp ends at 5 pm) Venue: Re-Life Hospital, No 208 &209, 100 feet Ring Road, Banashankari 3rd stage, Bengaluru 560 085
For more information, please contact: Re-Life Hospital, M: 9606021671
Kathmandu, 13 September 2021 – The Member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region resolved to work towards making ‘every school a health promoting school’, while also committing to safe school operations during the pandemic.
“Schools have an important role in promoting healthy lifestyles, life-long healthy behaviors and to nurture human capital for sustainable development of any society. We need a whole-of-government approach to ensure children from all socio-economic background, including those with special needs, benefit from healthy schools,” said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region at the Regional Committee meeting.
Adopting a resolution at the Regional Committee meeting to revitalize school health and health promoting schools, Member countries expressed concern over school closure during the ongoing pandemic, its impact on learning, growth and health of young children and adolescents.
Member countries also deliberated on the need to ensure safe reopening and operationalization of schools during the ongoing pandemic.
At the five-day meeting 6 – 10 September, the Member countries agreed to develop an integrated Regional Action Plan on viral hepatitis, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, aligned with WHO’s global and 2030 SDGs targets.
Other highlights of the Regional Committee meeting included a declaration signed by Member countries, at a ministerial round table, to take lessons from the pandemic and strengthen health system resilience to ensure health security and achieve universal health coverage and Sustainable Development Goals for health.
Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee addressed the ministerial round table, emphasizing on the need to ensure quality of health care services.
WHO and Member countries of South-East Asia Region discussed further strengthening of health emergency security systems to be better prepared for future health emergencies.
The meeting also discussed enhancing routine immunization coverage along with continuing efforts to rapidly increase COVID-19 vaccination coverage.
Accelerating efforts to prevent and control the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, action being taken for measles and rubella elimination and progress on universal health coverage, were some of the other Regional flagship priorities deliberated upon at the meeting.
The annual governing body meeting, hosted by Nepal this year, was held virtually for the second consecutive year due to the pandemic.
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* With specialised bio safety containment facilities in Hyderabad, Malur, Ankleshwar, and Pune, Bharat Biotech steadily moves towards its aim of ~ 1 billion doses of annualised capacity. * Product manufactured from Ankleshwar facilities will be available for supplies starting September 2021,
Hyderabad, Sunday, August 29, 2021: Bharat Biotech, a global leader in vaccine development and innovation, today announced the commercial launch of the first batch of COVAXIN® from its Chiron Behring Vaccines facility in Ankleshwar, Gujarat. Hon’ble Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the COVAXIN® batches. Dr. Krishna Ella, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Biotech and Mrs. Suchitra Ella, Joint Managing Director, Bharat Biotech were also present at the launch.
The company has already deployed multiple production lines at its Hyderabad, Malur, Bengaluru, and Pune campuses, and the addition of Chiron Behring, Ankleshwar will further augment its COVAXIN® production capacity. A new filing facility constructed during 2020 is now being utilized for the production of COVAXIN®. The COVAXIN® production had begun in early June, before which the team had executed engineering batches to study the equipment functionality at the facility. Chiron Behring Vaccines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharat Biotech.
Shri. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, said, “India is focused on slowing the spread of COVID-19 in the country, and the key to achieving this lies in the swift and efficient administration of vaccines. We want to ensure equitable access of the vaccine to every Indian citizen, and the expansion of COVAXIN® production facilities by Bharat Biotech will take us closer to this goal.” Dr. Krishna Ella, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Biotech, said, “We want to ensure that Bharat Biotech can ably meet the demand for COVAXIN® such that individuals across the country, and the globe, have access to the vaccine and can secure their health and safety. Our goal to develop a vaccine with global safety and efficacy standards has now been achieved, we are now marching towards the goal of annualized capacity of ~ 1.0 billion doses.” Mrs. Suchitra Ella, Joint Managing Director, Bharat Biotech, said, “It is with great pleasure that we welcome Shri. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, to our specialised manufacturing facility. I am happy to share that our efforts over the last one year have fructified, and we are now several steps closer to achieving our goal of providing COVAXIN® to all pockets of the country and overseas. The pandemic has impacted people across the globe, and it is only through collaborative efforts that we can hope to mitigate its spread and impact.” Bharat Biotech is also exploring manufacturing partnerships with its partners in other countries, who have prior expertise with commercial scale manufacturing of inactivated viral vaccines under biosafety containment for further augmentation.
BENGALURU / August 27, 2021: One should wait for at least 10-15 days before resuming any exercise or sports or return – to – activity after recovering from Covid to avoid serious consequences for one’s health and wellbeing, Dr. Renu Dadiala, one of Bengaluru’s foremost doctors specializing in sports injuries, has said in the run-up to the National Sports Day.
Dr. Renu Dadiala, Consultant, Sports & Musculoskeletal Physician and Interventional Pain Specialist with the Interventional Pain and Spine Centre (IPSC) in Bengaluru, said: “Covid can cause damage to several body organs. It affects every individual differently. We still don’t have enough studies telling us how much it affects. People suffering from symptoms like loss of stamina, breathlessness, muscle pain, exhaustion, etc. need to be closely monitored in post-recovery months. When tested positive for Covid, one should not indulge in any exercise or sports during the quarantine period. Only gentle and slow stretches and breathing exercise should be done. After recovery, people should wait for at least 15 days before going back to their pre Covid training”
She added: “People take up sports or exercise after Covid to get rid of a feeling of physical weakness. However, if they had suffered from moderate or severe Covid symptoms, they will collapse if they go into full training after recovery. They must see a doctor for a basic ECG and blood tests. The Covid virus causes an inflammatory response in the heart muscles, causing myocarditis. The heart muscle becomes swollen. Even if the virus is out of the body, it leaves certain areas of the lung affected, impacting efficient exchange of oxygen. Any exercise or sports in such cases can be very dangerous, even fatal. If one experiences extreme breathlessness, chest pain, dizziness or a racing heart beyond that warranted by the physical activity, one should totally avoid any kind of sports or exercise till the problem is treated. However, if after 15 days of recovery people feel normal, they should go back to physical activity very slowly and build stamina over a period of 10-15 days. They should listen to their body.”
Dr. Renu Dadiala said that in the last 15 years, Bengaluru has become a hub of recreational sports, with cycling, running, soccer and tennis clubs mushrooming everywhere, along with sports and coaching academies and fitness centres. Everyone from IT executives to school students to housewives are taking up recreational sports of some kind. Many schools have included sports as a part of curriculum. This has led to a rapid increase in the number of recreational athletes and, in turn, of sports-related injuries.
Dr. Renu Dadiala said: “Each sport has injuries unique to it. For example, while runners suffer from low-body injuries related to knees, ankles and lower-back, swimmers suffer from upper-body injuries related to shoulder, etc. Most people want to take up sports because they want to get fit. However, they have to first condition their body to a certain level so that they don’t injure themselves. Not every sport is suited to each body type or fitness levels. Recreational athletes should get themselves screened by a doctor to check if a particular sport is suitable for them. Health conditions like hypertension, diabetes, lower-back pain, early onset of arthritis, etc. can actually worsen with sports or exercise. So, advice from a doctor is essential before embarking on any sports.”
Interventional Pain & Spine Centre (IPSC) India, with branches in Delhi, Jammu and Bengaluru, is a chain of state -of-the-art centers of excellence offering the highest standard of quality care related to spinal pain and chronic pain related to any cause or disease. Established in 2012, its centers have treated more than 40,000 patients of chronic pain and trained more than 1,500 medical specialists from across the globe in pain management.
Dr. Rakesh Seenappa, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, Bengaluru
Online Classes and Increased Screen Time Leading to Myopia in Kids
* Long-term use of digital screens can cause dryness of eyes, near-sightedness, squint and allergies * More and more children are now presenting themselves with symptoms and eye conditions which used to be largely seen in adults
Bengaluru / August 25, 2021: Amid increased screen time in the ongoing pandemic due to online classes, the onset and progression of myopia (‘near-sightedness’) and ‘squint eye’ among school-going children has seen a two-fold increase, if the numbers at the paediatrics department of the nationwide eye hospital chain, Dr. Agarwals Eye Hospital, are any indication.
Said Dr. Rakesh Seenappa, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, Bengaluru: “We have seen almost doubling of cases of myopia among children of 8-16 years of age compared to pre-pandemic times There is also a significant rise in squint-eye cases among kids due to excessive use of digital screens for near-work activities like online classes, watching videos or playing video games on small screen. Long-term use of digital screens can cause dryness of eyes, near-sightedness, squint and allergies. It promotes faster tear evaporation, which leads to dryness in eyes, making patients rub them constantly. This causes changes in the corneal curvature and, in a few months, an increase in glass power. Dryness can also trigger eye allergies, which makes children rub their eyes even more. This is a downward spiral that leads to a myopic shift in the eyes as the child grows, leading to high myopia at an early age.”
He added: “Over the last one year, we have seen lot of school-going children and college teens coming to us with complaints of burning sensation in the eyes, blurring of vision and, sometimes, double vision and headaches. We have also found a few patients as young as 6 years suffering from myopia. This is mainly due to prevalence of online classes. Children who are in the front of a bright screen for more than four hours per day are most at risk of myopia and squint eye, especially those who don’t take frequent breaks. Risk factors are increased duration of screen time, playing video games on small screens and parents having myopia.”
According to the doctor, more and more children are presenting themselves with symptoms and eye conditions which used to be largely seen in adults till now. This is all a result of their adaption to the pandemic times. Said Dr. Rakesh Seenappa: “The ocular conditions we are seeing during the pandemics times in children include the dry eyes syndrome, allergic and infective conjunctivitis (pink eyes), styes (a red, sore lump near the edge of the eyelid) and stress headaches. The severity varies from mild to severe, depending on whether the parents recognize the symptoms at earlier stages or not.”
Myopia as a condition, though not reversible, is curable with prescription glasses. “We do have treatment options to prevent excessive progression of myopia. Squint is curable with glasses as well as through surgery. Sometimes it can be reversed through appropriate exercises and prescription glasses,” Dr. Rakesh Seenappa said.
To prevent the onset of eye conditions among children, one needs to limit their screen exposure time, encourage them to do more outdoor activities, take them for regular screening with an ophthalmologist, and discourage them from rubbing eyes frequently, the doctor added.
Near work refers to activities such as reading and writing with the distance between the object of focus (books, for instance) and eyes being less than 33 cm. During the lockdown period, near-work involves computers, laptops, mobile phones and tablets, taken up without frequent breaks and increased screen time for academic or other purposes. This visual stress could lead to squinting and has an accelerating effect on myopia progression. Myopia is an emerging public health problem in both urban and rural school-going children in India, requiring urgent efforts.
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